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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

3/23/2022

Following on my several readings of the use and misuse of history regarding the American Civil war (The Half Has …

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Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet

3/8/2022

World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In …

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Quick Recommendations

12/16/2021

A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix.  A very well done six …

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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman

12/6/2021

Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …

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The Road – Vasily Grossman

7/16/2021

Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer.  His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …

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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman

6/9/2021

If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …

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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

5/1/2019

  Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …

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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944

4/24/2019

  Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war …

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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier

9/27/2018

War

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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing

9/18/2018

  War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental …

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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes

7/31/2018

  Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice …

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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima

6/15/2018

  THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not …

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